Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, within 20 years the combined capacity of the U.S. and the Western world will not be sufficient to fill the gap. Said Freeman: "World hunger can be finally solved only in those areas where it is most prevalent." It can be done. In twelve of 26 new nations, crop increases averaged 5.6% yearly between...
Freeman's message was discreetly but unmistakably beamed at India, which has received the lion's share ($2.6 billion) of Food for Peace commodities, last year took 15% of the entire U.S. wheat crop-and still faces famine (see THE WORLD). Ghana had a ruder awakening. Two days after the State Department lodged a strong protest over a new virulently anti-American book by Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, the U.S. declined his government's request for $129 million worth of wheat, rice and dried milk. Faced with ever dwindling reserves and ever increasing demand...
...home in Rhodesia is on a farm, eight miles from Salisbury. Like most other farms in Rhodesia, tobacco is our main crop; maize, groundnuts, and beans are secondary subsistence crops. The farms in Rhodesia are not only owned by Europeans but are also owned by Europeans but are also owned by Africans. According to the Central Statistical Office survey in July 1962, African farmers cultivated two and one half times as much land as did European farmers. By contrast in Kenya the Africans had to wait until there was an African government in power for farms to be handed over...
...from interference by Britain they can develop the country in the most "sensible" way for both Europeans and Africans. In their alarm they have jumped from the frying pan into the fire of world opinion. They'll need all that fire to light their excess cigarettes--for their prime crop, tobacco, is no longer likely to find many buyers on the world market...
Pickett picked Columbia as the team's most serious league rival after Cornell, and predicted that Princeton, blessed with a good crop of sophomores, will be considerably improved over last year's sixth place finish. Penn, Yale, and Brown will fight for the crumbs...